Feed to yield

grass

Anyone using feed to yield in the parlor ? just wondering is it a success or do lads have them turned off

mahoney_j

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Anyone using feed to yield in the parlor ? just wondering is it a success or do lads have them turned off

Have it and use it from start to finish every year ,wouldn’t be without it

Timmaay

Had manual fty in my old parlour (cashmans and I put 1 line of tape on a cows tail for each extra pull of nuts), I suppose it worked well back then with some HOs giving 9k per lactation , however just pig feeders in the current parlour, and a smaller lower yielding but much higher %solids cow, with the aim to feed under 600kg in a usual year (don't ask about 2018 lol), working very well so far with profitable well up despite the lower delivered litres per cow. A fully automatic fty is something that I have given thought to, however there is always some spend that will give me a much better return in investment, like on grassland, better Laneways, or just more cows ha, and I think moving forward it will be the same.

Sacrolyte

How much extra are they over those other individual type ones.

grass

We just put in a new parlor with the feed to yield but it the system inst working yet. Some claim that it drives the cows mad say one cow get 2 kgs and the second gets four. We have steel troughs and feed is drip feed. know another fellow and it works well he just puts a capping on the max that any cow can get as he felt the really good cow still wasn't cleaning out the trough

joejobrien

Keenly looking at same system here.
1. I believe only suitable for High yield herd.
2. Returns too low otherwise.
3.ROI quick.
4.Growing popurality .
5. PROPERLY feeding each cow based on her production